Washington’s 2026 SkillsUSA Finalists in CS/IT

The Washington SkillsUSA State Leadership & Skills Conference was held April 16–18, 2026, at Clover Park Technical College in Lakewood. Gold medalists in qualifying events advanced to represent Washington at the SkillsUSA National Leadership & Skills Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, held June 1–5, 2026. 

At the national level, the following Washington students were recognized in CS/IT Categories:

The medalists in CS/IT events at the Washington competition were as follows:

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2D Animation STATE ONLY	Team E (consisting of Jasmine Cha, Elise Cha) Camas High Camas, WA	Team C (consisting of Elina Herman, Jonah Mellor) Discovery High camas, WA	Team A (consisting of Lily Collett, Willow Nusbaum) Discovery High camas, WA
3D Visualization and Animation	Team G (consisting of Bryden Hull, Devon Papa) South Kitsap High Port Orchard, WA	Team I (consisting of Aidan Mills, Joseph Paquet) South Kitsap High Port Orchard, WA	Team D (consisting of Ian Thompson, ava jackson) Central Kitsap High Silverdale, WA
Computer Maintenance Technology	April Mendez Pierce County Skills Center Puyallup, WA	Fabius Tuluc Cascadia Technical Academy Vancouver, WA	Brennan Loving-Marler Pierce County Skills Center Puyallup, WA
Computer Programming	Ashwath Polali Bonney Lake High Bonney Lake, WA	Liliya Gnatenko Central Valley High Verdale, WA	Kedar Soma Bonney Lake High Bonney Lake, WA
Cyber Security	Team C (consisting of Caleb Carver, Grayson Tinker) Cascadia Technical Academy Vancouver, WA	Team F (consisting of Abhinavlal Dharavath, Nathan Edwards) Central Valley High Verdale, WA	Team G (consisting of James Tran, Urijah De La Rosa) Central Valley High Verdale, WA
Information Technology Services	Coleson Schmidt Cascadia Technical Academy Vancouver, WA	William Spencer Cascadia Technical Academy Vancouver, WA	Clark McLucas Cascadia Technical Academy Vancouver, WA
Interactive Application and Video Game Development	Team E (consisting of Tyler Sika, Sarah Aldrich) Oak Harbor High Oak Harbor, WA	Team D (consisting of Savannah Hutchinson, Michi Rosas) Oak Harbor High Oak Harbor, WA	Team A (consisting of Ayden Newton, Day Balcorta) New Market Skills Center Tumwater, WA
Internet Of Things (IOT) Smart Home	Hannah Hailoufi Pierce County Skills Center Puyallup, WA	Dominick Iglesias Pierce County Skills Center Puyallup, WA	Kyle Russell Pierce County Skills Center Puyallup, WA
Internetworking	Jack Ticknor Cascadia Technical Academy Vancouver, WA	Yevhenii Shvets Cascadia Technical Academy Vancouver, WA	Manuel Frayle-Acosta Yakima Valley Skill Center Yakima, WA
Robotics and Automation Technology	Team C Logan Wirkkala-Scheller, Arlyan Rosas Meliton Naselle High School Naselle, WA	Team A Ethan Amestoy, Bjorn Otterstrom Ferris High School Spokane, WA	Team B Romain Garcia, Jamie Moreno Naselle High School Naselle, WA
Robotics-Urban Search and Rescue	Team B Haakan Kenney, Samuel Gornushenko Rochester High School Rochester, WA	Team C Bruce Phillips, Enrique Rodriguez Rochester High School Rochester, WA	Team F Victor Sandoval, Alex Guillermo Royal High School Royal City, WA
Telecommunications Cabling	Landon Boudreau Pierce County Skills Center Puyallup, WA	Alexander Rojas Pierce County Skills Center Puyallup, WA	Jayden Shepard Pierce County Skills Center Puyallup, WA

These results were extracted from https://www.skillsusa-register.org/rpts/EventMedalists.aspx on Aug 4, 2026.